| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  k d |
| NOUN: | 1a. A young goat. b. The young of a similar animal, such as an antelope. 2a. The flesh of a young goat. b. Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin. c. An article made from this leather. 3. Informal a. A child. b. A young person. 4. Slang Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person: Hi, kid! What's up? | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Made of kid. 2. Informal Younger than oneself: my kid brother. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: kid·ded, kid·ding, kids
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Informal 1. To mock playfully; tease. See synonyms at banter. 2. To deceive in fun; fool. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. Informal To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling. 2. To bear young. Used of a goat or an antelope. | | IDIOM: | no kidding 1. Used to express disbelief. 2. Used to express scornful acknowledgment of the obvious. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English kide, from Old Norse kidh. | | OTHER FORMS: | kid der —NOUN
kidding·ly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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